Chiselbury Photo Gallery by SRW at pbase.com

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Chiselbury

From the Window on Wiltshire's Heritage website:
"Chiselbury is an Iron Age hill-fort on a prominent location above the village of Fovant
and looks down over a scarp on which the famous Fovant Badges have been set out.

"The hill-fort looks northwards from the distinct scarp edge location across the valley of the River Nadder.
To its south the high chalk plateau contains extensive remains of prehistoric settlements and field systems, presumably defended by this fortification in times of trouble.
The ridgeway track to the south of the camp, which runs the length of the chalk scarp, is likely to have formed an important route though the territory in prehistoric times.

"The entrance to the hill-fort is at the southeast, with a slight semi circular outwork intended to defend the entrance.
The rampart is high, rising to some 3.6 metres in places and the external ditch has a depth of 1.6 metres.

"On the north and south sides of the hill-fort, cross-dykes have been found which seem to have the purpose of preventing movement along the ridge.
These will be contemporary with the fortification."

New pictures are always posted at the bottom of this gallery... (currently on page 3).

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West rampart	Diameter	Hilltop
Descent	Floating	Ramparts
Late corn	Fire	Grass
Face left	The long climb...	Moo view
Goodnight	God bless	Assault and battery
Glowing, glowing, gone...	Flocking	The view from the ridge (II)
Puddle...	Christmas decorations	Bare trees
Entrance I	Entrance II	Emerging angel
Philipps House	Dem bones...	Three sentinels...
Here comes the rain again...	Modern signage...	Lookout...
Big sky...	Cracked from side to side 25 January 2006 (131)	Towards Buxbury Hill
Scrub this...	Flanking the ridgeway	Not a drum was heard... 6 March 2006 (171)
The gate...	You will go far. 7 March 2006 (172)	Shortcut...
Freshly ploughed...	Glittering thread...	A welcome breeze...
Kidney vetch	Towards Sutton Mandeville...	Textures...
Philipps House (II)	Towards Win Green	Bellypopper
Police warning	There goes the sun...	The moon's...
...a balloon	Purple haze	When the cows come home...
The mast...	Gurston Down	Fallen...
Bugged	From the ridgeway	Strangalia maculata
Gurston Down (II)	Long exposure...	Cream-spot Tiger...
Small Heath	Towards Compton Chamberlayne...	Yet more poppies!
Let them be left... 17 July 2006 (304)	Burn and rave... 20 July 2006 (307)	Another Cinnabar...
Peacock	Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa)	Look Ma: no hands...!
In a green pasture... 21 July 2006 (308)	Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)	Towards Green Drove...
Having a sip	Stealth Peacock	Catching some rays 24 July 2006 (311)
Umbellifer	Can these bones live? 31 July 2006 (318)	Sorry...
The trouble with...	Flat as a pancake...	Contrasts...
Smoking	Ripples...	My favourite view... (I)
My favourite view... (II)	Wired water...	Intricated...! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical...! 14 February 2007 (333)

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comment

Johnny JAG		07-Mar-2006 21:39
Cool place, great history and beauty.

lou_rozensteins		15-Nov-2005 09:01
An excellent series of shots .... it looks like a beautiful place to be and explore! Very nice.

...duncan		13-Nov-2005 19:25
What a great gallery. Each image is wonderful and beautiful. A person can get lost in these images. Well done and voted!.

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